Etymology

bake-off

Today it means: A cooking contest, especially one where competition is head-to-head, not limited to preparing food involving baking. Full definition →

English bake ← Middle English baken ← Old English bacan
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₃g-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*bʰh₃g-
  3. Proto-Germanic*bakaną
  4. Proto-West Germanic*bakan
  5. Old Englishbacan
  6. Middle Englishbaken
  7. Englishbake
  8. English todaybake-off

From bake + -off.

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